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Greaves said The Satanic Temple is a nontheistic religious organization that emphasizes their affirmative values and ethical framework. He said the organization's detractors view nontheism as a ...
The Temple believes in reason, empathy and the pursuit of knowledge, its website FAQ helpfully explains. And it doesn’t worship Satan. “Satan is a symbol of the Eternal Rebel in opposition to ...
The Satanic Temple was founded in Salem, Massachusetts in 2013 by Lucien Greaves and Malcolm Jerry, and began getting national attention after holding a rally in Tallahassee praising then-Gov ...
The Satanic Temple (TST) is a non-theistic organization and new religious movement, [1] founded in 2013 and headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts.Established in reaction to the "intrusion of Christian values on American politics", [4] [9] congregations have also formed in Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
In January 2014, the Satanic Temple announced plans to also crowdfund [19] and privately commission a 7-to-9-foot-tall bronze statue of Baphomet [18] to be displayed alongside the Christian monument, both statues being legally classified as "donations". [20] The Satanic Temple ultimately raised over $28,000 to finance and build the statue of ...
In the letters to the early Christian churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9, Jesus makes reference to a synagogue of Satan (Greek: συναγωγή τοῦ Σατανᾶ, synagoge tou satana), in each case referring to a group persecuting the church "who say they are Jews and are not".
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented The Satanic Temple in the case, the district was required to give the organization the same access it would provide to comparable ...
Douglas Mesner, better known as Lucien Greaves, [6] is an American social activist and co-founder of, and spokesperson for, The Satanic Temple. [11] Greaves was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States. [5] His mother was a Protestant who took him to Sunday School. [12] He studied neuroscience at Harvard with a speciality in false-memory ...